Talcking Employee Satisfaction in This World of Never Ending Desires
The backbone of employee satisfaction is respect for workers and the job they perform. In every interaction with management, employees should be treated with courtesy and interest. An easy avenue for employees to discuss problems with upper management should be maintained and carefully monitored. Employee satisfaction surveys are the best, most cost-effective way to gather comprehensive information accurately from a large portion of your employees about how satisfied and how engaged they are, and what needs to be done to increase employee satisfaction and engagement. Even if management cannot meet all the demands of employees, showing workers that they are being heard and putting honest dedication into compromising will often help to improve morale.
The benefits of employee satisfaction
Increase employee engagement and performance
Increase employee satisfaction, employee loyalty and employee productivity
Identify hidden problems, opportunities and possible solutions
Create a roadmap for making breakthrough improvements
Focus managers' energies on areas with the highest priority and the largest payback
Execute more effectively
Identify internal communications problems, a significant cause of dissatisfaction and poor performance 8. Strengthen the culture of collaboration and change
Reduce costly employee turnover
Enhance your "employer of choice" reputation
Avoid costly abuse law suits
Facilitate innovation and smart risk-taking
Reduce the People Performance Gap, the costly gap in performance between the most and least effective people performing each job in your company
Relationship with immediate supervisor,
Management recognition of employee job performance,
Communication between employees and senior management,
The work itself, and
Autonomy and independence
While looking out factors that mean a lot for employees and mean a lot in the satisfaction survey are as follows
Job security,
Relationship with immediate supervisor,
Communication between employees and senior management,
Opportunities to use skills and abilities,
Management recognition of employee job performance,
Job-specific training,
Feeling safe in the work environment,
Compensation/pay, and
Overall corporate culture
Appraisals, bonuses and incentives are some other methods to satisfy an employee, as this is a prime factor but not the overall solution for employee satisfaction, an employee may be happy with his appraisals and incentives but if he is continuously working under stress and pressure, soon he may not find the monetary gains that are important due to the stress he has to face in his daily work. In cases wherein you find it difficult to know the satisfaction level of employees
Surveys and interviews prove to be fruitful in collecting all the required data regarding employee satisfaction and an employer also understands the problem area that lowers the morale of the workers.
Track employee perceptions of the quality of your products or services and their timely delivery compare these against your customers' perceptions and your operational measures of actual quality and timeliness. Communicators can help educate employees about any gaps, which can be the first step in changing their behaviors. You may also find that different employee subgroups see the issues differently.
Involve employees in developing and implementing improvement initiatives for negative issues identified in the survey.
Identify and measure on a survey various employee communication and satisfaction issues that relate to your company's ISO 9000 standards.
The backbone of employee satisfaction is respect for workers and the job they perform. In every interaction with management, employees should be treated with courtesy and interest. An easy avenue for employees to discuss problems with upper management should be maintained and carefully monitored. Employee satisfaction surveys are the best, most cost-effective way to gather comprehensive information accurately from a large portion of your employees about how satisfied and how engaged they are, and what needs to be done to increase employee satisfaction and engagement. Even if management cannot meet all the demands of employees, showing workers that they are being heard and putting honest dedication into compromising will often help to improve morale.
The benefits of employee satisfaction
Increase employee engagement and performance
Increase employee satisfaction, employee loyalty and employee productivity
Identify hidden problems, opportunities and possible solutions
Create a roadmap for making breakthrough improvements
Focus managers' energies on areas with the highest priority and the largest payback
Execute more effectively
Identify internal communications problems, a significant cause of dissatisfaction and poor performance 8. Strengthen the culture of collaboration and change
Reduce costly employee turnover
Enhance your "employer of choice" reputation
Avoid costly abuse law suits
Facilitate innovation and smart risk-taking
Reduce the People Performance Gap, the costly gap in performance between the most and least effective people performing each job in your company
Relationship with immediate supervisor,
Management recognition of employee job performance,
Communication between employees and senior management,
The work itself, and
Autonomy and independence
While looking out factors that mean a lot for employees and mean a lot in the satisfaction survey are as follows
Job security,
Relationship with immediate supervisor,
Communication between employees and senior management,
Opportunities to use skills and abilities,
Management recognition of employee job performance,
Job-specific training,
Feeling safe in the work environment,
Compensation/pay, and
Overall corporate culture
Appraisals, bonuses and incentives are some other methods to satisfy an employee, as this is a prime factor but not the overall solution for employee satisfaction, an employee may be happy with his appraisals and incentives but if he is continuously working under stress and pressure, soon he may not find the monetary gains that are important due to the stress he has to face in his daily work. In cases wherein you find it difficult to know the satisfaction level of employees
Surveys and interviews prove to be fruitful in collecting all the required data regarding employee satisfaction and an employer also understands the problem area that lowers the morale of the workers.
Track employee perceptions of the quality of your products or services and their timely delivery compare these against your customers' perceptions and your operational measures of actual quality and timeliness. Communicators can help educate employees about any gaps, which can be the first step in changing their behaviors. You may also find that different employee subgroups see the issues differently.
Involve employees in developing and implementing improvement initiatives for negative issues identified in the survey.
Identify and measure on a survey various employee communication and satisfaction issues that relate to your company's ISO 9000 standards.